Wycliffe Gordon's Within Our Gates

Friday, April 05, 2013

Ticket Information

$45; Members $38; Under 30 $15

Time

8:00 PM

Presented By

Symphony Space

Event Type

Performances

Genre

Jazz

Description

Trombonist/composer/bandleader Gordon created a powerful evening-length work for his big band to accompany the historicWithin Our Gates (1920), a silent film believed to be the African American response to D.W. Griffiths' "Birth of a Nation" that dramatically exposes America's racial situation during the violent years of Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, and the emergence of the "New Negro." Produced, written and directed by novelist/filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, it is the oldest known surviving film made by an African-American.